direct to your inboxToday marks the second anniversary of the launch of the M.E.N. on Sunday. Here M.E.N editor-in-chief Darren Thwaites looks back on how a newspaper that started out against all the odds - and then faced the unprecedented impact of Covid-19 - has gone from strength to strength.It took the Manchester Evening 150 years to launch a Sunday edition.
Had we known a global pandemic was just around the corner, we may have never done so.Launching a new newspaper in 2019 was rare enough.
Many readers had already moved online and the M.E.N still leads that digital charge with the UK’s biggest regional audience.It certainly took some imagination to get a business case off the ground that involved ink not algorithms.
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